In 1891 Edwin Blincoe and family living at Victoria Rd Berkhamsted. Note the house is a short distance from a brewery where his father Edwin may have been working as a drayman.
The Berkhamsted Brewery where Edwin Blinco probably worked. In 1891 this was in the ownership of James Batchelor and called the Dagnell Brewery
Berkhamsted High Street and the Queen’s Arms in 1890
The Mill at Berkhamsted
Edwin age 14 in 1901 living with parents at this house No 34 Whitehall Street Aylesbury
An earlier photograph of Basket Makers C1904
Employed in Leighton Buzzard as a Basket Maker before the war , Edward was enlisted in the Royal Engineers to continue this trade. This photograph shows basket cases for shells being made by civilians in Goldaming Surrey C1914. Far from looking like industrial weapons manufacturing production this rather looks like a family pastime in the back garden!
In 1911 Edward is a basketmaker lodging at 49 Windsor Rd Watford.
Leighton Linslade -The Canal
Edward spent the war with the Royal Engineers in the Meditterean
In 1914 when Edward enlisted with the Royal engineers he gives 10 Plantation Rd leighton Buzzard. He reurns to this address in 1919 and in 1939 whilst he is in Hospital his wife Lily is at 10 Plantation Rd.
